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7587259 Items dispenser  
An automated small items dispensing apparatus is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the invention includes a networked, programmable, automatic medication items dispensing apparatus for use by...
7584869 Article dispensing system and method for same  
An article dispensing machine and article transport storage unit are shown that permit articles slated for inventory to be delivered in secure manner from a centralized inventory supply center to...
7565222 Economical optical system to provide reasonable assurance of completed vend or vendible items from vending machines  
A monitor and method for reasonable confirmation of a vend from a vending machine includes a set of optical emitters positionable on one side of a dispensing area and a set of optical detectors,...
7516829 Vending machine of encapsulated article of commerce  
It is an object of the invention to provide a bill-operated capsuled article vending machine. The capsuled article vending machine 10 is provided with a capsule container 12 at an upper portion...
7502664 System and method for interactive items dispenser  
A networked items dispenser is disclosed. The device includes a housing having a bulk storage bin for storing items, a temporary storage bin for receiving the items, and a dispensing receptacle for...
7458483 Assay testing diagnostic analyzer  
A diagnostic system with a handling system that has a loading bay to receive and hold a plurality of carriers. An identification device is configured to identify an identifying feature of the...
7446302 Optical vend-sensing system for control of vending machine  
A transparent-front vending machine includes an optical vend-sensing system with an article sensing subsystem arranged athwart a vend space. The article sensing subsystem has two emitter/detector...
7438201 Apparatus for detecting of dropping tablets in automatic medicine packaging machine  
An apparatus for precisely, detecting a tablet dropped in a last hopper so that packaging speed of tablets is increased and operation of a shutter and a sealer is precisely performed, is disclosed....
7344047 Automatic medicament dispenser system  
A mobile medicine storage unit for individuals under a doctor's care. The unit is programmable and preferably fully automatic, but also manual, in dispensing any number of medications up to four...
7343220 Optical vend-sensing system for control of vending machine  
For ensuring that a vending machine motor will continue to operate until a product has descended through a vending space or an established time interval has elapsed, an optical beam is established...
7302311 Cartridge for dispensing pill- or capsule-form medications in desired doses  
A system for dispensing pill- or capsule-form medications ( 61 ) in desired doses ( 60 ). The system comprises a dispensing device ( 35 ), which includes a cartridge ( 20, 40 ) rotatable relative...
7289879 Pill dispensing system  
A pill dispensing system includes a shelving unit in array form that holds a number of bulk containers, each holding a bulk amount of a pill to be dispensed. A computer controlled robot removes a...
7269467 Shelf system  
A shelf system with computer-controlled compartment displays, whereby the displays indicate a number of articles to picked out of the compartment. The shelf system has a plurality of sliding...
7213721 Personal medication dispenser  
An automated personal pill dispenser has one or more chambers for holding a supply of pills. A feed mechanism is associated with each chamber and is selectively operable to dispense an incremental...
7152756 Dispensing systems and methods  
A dispensing system dispensing items includes a dispensing station and a first conveyor for transporting containers to the dispensing station. The dispensing station includes a dispenser for...
7097068 Tablet dispenser with isolated delivery sensor  
A preferred embodiment proof of delivery system for use with a solid product dispenser includes an outlet conduit and a sensor mechanism. The outlet conduit is light transmissive and includes an...
7086558 Tool vending machine and method therefore  
A tool vending machine which permits human access to only a single size compartment of a plurality of different sized compartments at a time so that the user is only able to extract a tool that is...
7080755 Smart tray for dispensing medicaments  
The invention relates to a method and system that utilizes one or more cassettes or trays, which hold one or more types of medicaments, the cassettes or trays being configured for secure and...
7058581 System and method of distributing and returning products  
The present invention comprises a product distribution and return system which includes a return mailer dispensed with a product from a vending machine. The product is returnable in the return...
6997341 Vacuum drum pill counter  
A vacuum driven pill counter having a counter housing with a pill discharge aperture formed therein. vacuum disk is rotatably positioned in the housing and has a front wall including a pill...
6957125 Interactive vending machine to view customized products before they are purchased and internally track saleable inventory  
An interactive vending machine which enables a consumer to view customized products before they are purchased and thereafter enables the consumer to purchase the customized products. The machine...
6944512 Device and method for carrying out the decentralized production of desired products from different starting materials, and an automated process system  
An arrangement, system and process for producing desired products ( 1 ) in at least one decentralized automated process system ( 3 ), which processes starting materials ( 2 ) provided therefor into...
6902083 Method for dispensing medical items  
A dispenser ( 10 ) for dispensing medical items ( 68, 70, 72 ) includes dispenser modules ( 28, 30 ) movably mounted thereon. The dispenser modules are selectively operative to dispense medical...
6899144 Method and system for high-speed discrete object counting and dispensing  
A discrete object dispensing system and method dispenses any selected number of objects, up to a maximum number, without a substantial delay associated with counting all of the tablets. A preset...
6871755 Ticket counting dispenser  
A storage, display and dispensing apparatus for tickets of various sizes that accounts for the tickets dispensed during a selected time period. The apparatus includes a bin housing for storing a...
6840399 Method and apparatus for hose storage in an article handling device  
An article handling apparatus embodied, for example, as a vending machine, includes a controllably positioned hose dispenser for retrieving articles from an article storage area. A hose is...
6827234 Easy-to-use automatic distributor machine using rotary discs  
An easy-to-use automatic distributor machine ( 100 ) using rotary discs ( 103 ), of the type comprising a fixed structure ( 170 ) with at least one product-holding disc ( 103 ), rotating about its...
6799413 Apparatus and methods for filling containers with pills  
There is provided an automated packaging apparatus for depositing a predetermined number of pills into a series of containers. The packaging apparatus includes a plurality of independently...
6735497 Systems and methods for dispensing medical products  
The present invention relates to systems and methods for the remote dispensing of packaged and non-packaged medical products using networked communications systems. A preferred embodiment of the...
6708079 Optical vend-sensing system for control of vending machine  
An optical vend-sensing system for reliably detecting the dispensing of an article, is presented. The system includes two parallel reflecting surfaces, each mounted at opposite sides of a vend...
6684914 Method and system for high-speed discrete object counting and dispensing  
A discrete object dispensing system and method dispenses any selected number of objects, up to a maximum number, without a delay associated with counting the tablets. A preset number of objects are...
6671579 Override having built in audit trail for medication dispensing and administering systems  
The present invention is directed to a method of dispensing or administering medications which requires prompting the user for a reason if the user wants to dispense or intends to administer a...
6659304 Cassettes for systems which feed, count and dispense discrete objects  
A high capacity cassette for an object counting and dispensing system includes a substantially horizontal base including an exit hole, a peripheral wall about the base and having an internal...
6655545 Medical code system  
An improved emergency code cart ( 100 ) is provided. The cart contains a number of drawers ( 130 ), each containing medications ( 305, 310 ) and instruments ( 315 ) required for a particular code...
6636780 Medication dispensing system including medicine cabinet and tray therefor  
A medication dispensing system includes a medicine cabinet having a plurality of compartments for containing supplies of different kinds of medications to be accessed by a healthcare attendant for...
6609969 Apparatus and method for dispensing of awards  
A device for dispensing awards includes a housing having a set of compartments, the contents of which are visible from the outside. Each compartment contains a small but valuable award, such as a...
6595384 Solid drug product supplying device  
A solid drug product supplying apparatus including a first partition plate 27 which is slidably secured to the chute 6 and has a first fitting portion 27 A, and a second partition plate 28 ...
6587748 Automated parts dispensing system  
The automated parts dispensing system and method includes a dispensing device in communication with a parts vending system. The dispensing device is one of the commonly known machine for dispensing...
6581797 Pill dispenser with reminder  
A programmable vitamin and pill dispenser that is capable of storing multiple pill groups. The dispenser provides reminders to an individual when it is time to ingest the next serving. The serving...
6571982 Communication device for automatic vending machine  
A communication device for an automatic vending machine includes, a main control unit that initializes each unit in accordance with a result of decoding an initialization order from ROM, and...
6488174 Dispenser  
A container dispenser having a lid and a case housing is disclosed. The dispenser includes an outlet at a bottom portion of the case housing and communicating with a vertical passage, a wing...
6484901 Automatic vending machine for sticker and caricature printed article  
An automatic vending machine for a sticker combinable caricature printed article is provided. The automatic vending machine includes a memory, a caricature outputting printer, a sticker outputting...
6467648 Product delivering device and product delivering method of automatic vending machine  
A stopper which projects into the product passage to support the product to be sold, an ejector which projects into the product passage to support the product to be sold next immediately after the...
6446832 Virtual multihopper card feeder  
An improved card feeding apparatus and associated method for feeding plastic cards to a printer. The apparatus can be used in any system where plastic cards are fed into a printer, but has...
6427865 Automatic pill dispenser  
A device and method for dispensing pills or vitamins is disclosed which includes a rotatable chamber within a housing. The chamber contains multiple slots for storing the pills or vitamins, and the...
6412654 Vending machine  
A vending machine for vending articles such as cassettes or boxes is disclosed which has a touch screen ( 18 ) for receiving user input commands, a key pad ( 26 ) and credit card or coin payment...
6364517 Drug dispenser and quantity input device  
A device which can reduce the workload on operators during replenishment and stocktaking of drugs stored in a drug dispenser. The drug dispenser has a memory for storing data on the initial number...
6360140 Product dispenser with inventory monitoring  
A product dispenser with inventory monitoring, useful to be installed in hotel establishments and establishments providing similar services, including a refrigerating equipment and a plurality of...
6352200 Medicament distribution system and automatic dispenser for such system  
A pharmacy system for prescribing and delivering medicaments to a patient includes at least one input unit with which a doctor is capable of entering inter alia a prescription of a medicament for a...
6308109 Method and apparatus for delivering drugs  
An apparatus and control method for feeding medications in which processing units, which can prepare drugs, non-drug articles and drug-related articles, are provided along a carrier feed line, and...
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